You report how a mother was fighting for justice for her five-year-old daughter, who was sexually assaulted on a local estate (Oxford Mail, October 12).

How courageous she must be. Good luck to her.

What's wrong with our justice system that the word of a little girl is no longer good enough?

I hope that the mother manages to get what she is striving to achieve and that the offender is brought to court.

Hopefully, the child will obtain some closure to the turmoil she must have been going through.

This brings me to your article (Oxford Mail, October 23) - should we know where sex offenders are living?

I agree they can't be locked up forever, but if they are going to change their behaviour, it will happen because they want to do so, not because society says they have to.

I believe they should all be housed together, away from families, schools and playgrounds.

They should have their own community, in a little town purposely built for them, with a 12ft electric fence around the perimeter, with them banned from the rest of civilisation.

If they can take the innocence of a child, all rights should be taken from them. Why give chances to these people? Their victims never had a chance.

If sex offenders are going to live among society, it should be a right to all residents in the area to know who they are, what offence they have been accused of or committed, and what risk the community faces.

We have laws, but it seems that the laws fail the victims and are all too ready to protect the offender.

BOB SMITH Cowley Road Oxford